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Magsaysay award winners Arvind Kejriwal and Sandeep Pandey, activist Anna Hazare, and Zee TV owner S Chandra have written to the prime minister, requesting that former IPS officer Kiran Bedi be appointed the chief information commissioner of the Central Information Commission. Bedi is known for her no-nonsense approach to work. The post fell vacant when Wajahat Habibullah resigned from it last month. Commissioners M M Ansari and A N Tiwari are also frontrunners. But an analysis by NGO Parivartan showed their performance in 2008 was not impressive. Of every 100 people who filed appeals before Ansari, 15 got information. In case of Tiwari it was 16 per cent.
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Covered five states Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh Covered 10 states and NCR. Over 35,000 people interviewed
13% rural and 33% urban people aware of the act 20% rural and 45% urban people aware of the act
12% women and 26% men aware of the act Over 90% of rural applicants and 85% of urban applicants were men
Over 26% people had to pay more than three visits to submit RTI applications Over 75% applicants dissatisfied with the response. Only 9% first appeals got response
47% people did not get replies within 30 days. Penalty imposed in only 1.7% cases Penalty for delayed information imposed in 1.9% of the cases requiring such a penalty
45% public information officers not provided training in implementing the act 60% public information officers said they had not been trained
89% public information officers said there was no additional allocation of staff 60% of the information commissions reported inadequate infrastructure, budget and staff
Disposal of applications takes four to14 months Waiting time for disposal of appeals/complaints is the highest in Gujarat, 19.9 months
 
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